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title: It is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends who have seen my sket
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 2

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It is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends who have seen my sketches and fancies say the same.

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**Who acts:** INTRODUCTION, I, thoughts, eye, sketches · **What happens:** be, feel, tie, not describe, portray, rise · **To what, where:** strange thing, hands, thoughts, painter, much, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (INTRODUCTION, I, thoughts, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:91:2
# text = It is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends who have seen my sketches and fancies say the same.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	fervently	fervently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	portray	portray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	within	within	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
53	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	as	as	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	obj	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
60	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	62	det:predet	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nsubj:pass	_	_
63	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	65	nsubj	_	_
64	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	ccomp	_	_
66	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	nsubj	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	conj	_	_
70	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	parataxis	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | INTRODUCTION | a strange thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  | fervently *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tie** | present · passive |  | my hands and my tongue |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **describe** | can | I |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **portray** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the thoughts |  |  |  | accurately *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thought=Theme |
| 6 | **rise** | present · progressive | the thoughts |  |  |  |  | within me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | I | a painter |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | my eye | much | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | my friends |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my sketches and fancies | the same |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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